Woodland Café (1937)

WALT DISNEY STUDIO
Woodland Café (1937)
original production animation drawing
red, blue, green and black pencil on untrimmed animation sheet, image size: 3.5" x 4.75"

This lively final animation drawing of the touch Spider dancer was created by a Disney Studio animator in production of the animated Silly Symphony, and a cel painting was made directly from it. Wilfred Jackson directed this cartoon of insects gathering for an evening at the insect nightclub. The Spider plays the tough guy onstage with the cute female bug; they perform a tango-like dance atop the spider's web, and in this scene he holds her by her antennae (seen protruding from his hand). The animator wrote the studio designation “109” at lower right to indicate this original's place in the scene; he also wrote his initials "JER" (for Jacques E. Roberts) at lower right.